If you click on the above link you will hear BBC arts editor Will Gompertz on his new Five Live arts show Heat Map, during which he invited people to discuss the City of Culture….it gets quite heated and the notion of Gompertz drawing attention to a crisp packet outside St Paul’s is mentioned.

Lively though, which is what arts chat should ALWAYS be, it was a pleasure to be asked on. And no, I’m not going to be taking my clothes off for Spencer Tunick, as the subsequent coverage in the Hull Daily Mail explains….

And it isn’t just Ms Millard who is championing the city so passionately. Her children have caught the infectious enthusiasm for the place too.

She told Gompertz that, when asked to describe Hull her children used the words: “Independent”, “radical”, “edgy”, “dangerous” and celebrated the fact it “doesn’t take itself too seriously”.

As well as vigorously defending her adopted city, the 50-year-old also hinted about what else the city can expect in 2017 – including a “remarkable” event at Hull University.

Responding to Gompertz’s idea of all major museums loaning one of the great artworks they hold each to Hull for the year, Rosie said: “Your idea of bringing the great works of art across the country to show in Hull is a noble ambition but actually it’s not quite, well, there is going to be an amazing show at the university which I cannot say much about – it’s going to be a remarkable piece of renaissance glory.”

And so to Round Two Thousand of the debate about what us ladies should wear on screen. Or not. It’s the sports reporters at Sky, this time, being lambasted for being too glamorous.Well, here’s the thing. I am quite often on the Sky News sofa reviewing the papers. I am sometimes in madly high heels. Often a short skirt. Sometimes over the knee leather boots. I have been seen in shorts. This sort of stuff is routine in my wardrobe. It is routine for many women on screen, unless you are reporting from a war zone. My female counterparts on the sofa are in similar stuff. Bright stretchy dresses. Really very high heels.

Is the outfit all that counts? Are are the sports presenters the human version of flouncy curtains? From reasonably regular exposure at the workface, I would say not. They seem to me to be experts, familiar with every twitch, nuance and prediction in their field. They know the inner workings of Arsene Wenger’s mind, Murray’s spin and Chris Froome’s thighs.

So, back to the clothes. Do we have an equivalent of the neutral ‘suit and tie’ combo which most men wear? We do not. 10 seconds on the High Street would reveal that the market is full of sexy clothes. Presumably because women buy them. Even Boden ventures above the knee, and M&S has a body con dress in its Limited range (I own it, and have worn it on the Sky sofa).

The collapse of Nicole Farhi says it all. Women don’t want to dress in giant trousers, or shapeless, creased linen sacks which finish half way down the calf, any more. Call it the legacy of Madonna, Victoria Beckham, or Pippa Middleton, but we like clothes which show off our shape. It doesn’t mean we are stupid. Or that we can’t organise our own ‘career path’.

Here he is, the lovely Tony Livesey himself, on his eponymous Five Live show at Terminal 2 in Manchester Airport. We’re all sitting with him, that is me, Simon Calder from the Indy and Jeremy Spake from Airport fame.And we are talking about the romance of travel, of being met, of seeing the love of your life at the Arrivals gate and enfolding yourself in his/her arms for a VERY LONG TIME. And Simon Calder won’t have any of it. Airports for him, the Indy’s Travel Guru, are dull, horrid places with strip lighting and too many walkways. But for me, Jezza and Tony, they are places of high drama, of theatre, of human emotion and of course of travel.

Here is a picture of Jeremy, who is adorable and was off to Chicago the next day to do a piece for Russian television, and then the day AFTER that, Uganda. How can Simon say that air travel isn’t magical? When you can be in Manchester, Chicago and Uganda within the space of three days. It was a good show.

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https://rosiemillard1.wordpress.com/2011/05/20/pushy-parent/#respondFri, 20 May 2011 10:19:44 +0000http://rosiemillard1.wordpress.com/?p=64So I’ve just done a radio thing on Radio Ulster discussing just how pushy I am with my children and how I forced them to go around the world eating iguana and singing the Marseillaise just because I wanted to….
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https://rosiemillard1.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/rosie-trying-to-speak-french-on-tv/#respondThu, 02 Jul 2009 10:21:45 +0000http://rosiemillard1.wordpress.com/?p=68The kids sabotage the filming (off stage). See how annoyed Mr Millard gets!